Posted on 10/24/2017 5:17:45 PM PDT by markomalley
A new report has found out that at least 5,600 Daesh terrorists have returned to their countries, including the US and UK, as the terror group loses ground in Syria and Iraq.
The US-based think tank Soufan Center published a report on Tuesday saying that those returning home will be a security challenge for years to come. They include half of the estimated 850 people that left the UK to join ISIL and also 400 of the 3,417 fighters from Russia; 760 of the 3,244 from Saudi Arabia; 800 of the 2,926 from Tunisia; and 271 of the 1,910 from France, according to Press TV.
The Soufan Center's report says the flow of foreign fighters came to a virtual standstill in late 2015, as the terrorist group began to suffer defeats and states implemented better measures to prevent travel.
"Although there is disagreement over the threat that returning foreign fighters may present to their countries of residence or origin, or to other countries they pass through," the report says. "Returnees may be particularly vulnerable to contact from people who were part of the network that recruited them, or appeals for help from ex-comrades in arms."
In addition to losing ground in Syria, Daesh has also been pushed out of Mosul, Iraq’s third largest city, following a months-long military campaign.
Thirty-three US states have reported returns over the past two years.
The UK has also been hit with a series of terrorist attacks over the past few months.
London announced in January last year that around 800 Britons had gone to fight with Daesh or other terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq.
The head of the UK Security Service, MI5, reported to BBC last week that fewer than expected of the 800 Britons who joined IS had returned recently and that at least 130 had been killed.
Those who were still in Syria and Iraq might not now attempt to come back because they knew they might be arrested, Andrew Parker said.
The US and European countries are also the main suppliers of arms and other assistance to the terrorists, effectively feeding terror that is returning to affect themselves.
They aren’t a security problem when they’re dead.
put the security clearing house in Kauaii
already has a 700-acre fenced compound
and a judge with a fair and open mind
Just how does one go from chopping heads one week
to chopping wheat (or poppies) the next?
I guess we will soon find out.
“So let’s all just pretend that none of this ever even happened! Please pass the cask of goat milk. Abdulla, my Brother...What kind of a cup is that? It looks a lot like a Human Skull.
Where did you buy it?”
Once the Obama/CIA money ran out after Trump was elected, ISIS fell fast
“Once the Obama/CIA money ran out after Trump was elected, ISIS fell fast”
Even more than ending the US Train and Equip mission for so-called “moderate” rebels, was cutting ISIS off from supply/support from Turkey, and pressuring the Gulf Arabs to cut off funding - and directly bombing the crap out of ISIS.
It ha been a sea change since Trump came into office. Salaries to “moderate” rebels stopped that month (not including the Kurdish-led SDF, who have been effective fighting ISIS and are honestly not jihadis).
“.... at least 5,600 Daesh terrorists have returned to their countries...”
Kind of difficult to spot anything positive coming out of this news.
Metastasizing
True, and with the revelations coming out about the FBI’S part in helping the Clintons during the elections, and the payments for the dossier, Muellers involvement in the Uranium transfer and that even the WSJ and NYT is reporting in depth on it now. I guess once this cat is out go the bag, it’s not going back in. But I do believe this is the tip of the iceberg and through this we will find out the US involvement with ISIS in order to grow our arms sales throughout the world through funding and growing terrorism through the Obama administration, with Hillary as SoS promoting and helping control it. So much corruption.
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